The Conversation

Shaun Hill said on KNBR that Josh Morgan was the primary receiver on the winning touchdown pass. Gary Plummer asked him if Hill was having trouble gripping the ball and he said that he was just so “geeked up” because he had family and friends in the crowd.

“I never prepared for a game more than this one,” Hill said. He also convinced coach Mike Singletary to keep him in the game after Singletary told Mike Martz and quarterback J.T. O’Sullivan that Hill was going to sit. Then he went to Hill and Singletary said he saw the look in his eyes.

Mike Singletary said Shaun Hill grew up with the last-minute win in St. Louis.

“He said coach, ‘Don’t do that. I can do this,'” Singletary said. “I said, ‘OK, let’s get your team together and do this.'”

That’s where Singletary’s personality and experience as a player is so invaluable. Another coach might not have noticed the look in Hill’s eye, might not have heard the resolve in his voice. Obviously, keeping Hill in the game was the right decision.